Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Thomas Sowell

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

Francis Ford Coppola

The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.

Edward R. Murrow

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Martha Beck

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Charles F. Bunning

I watched him strap on his harness and helmet, climb into the cockpit and, minutes later, a black dot falls off the wing two thousand feet above our field. At almost the same instant, a white streak behind him flowered out into the delicate wavering muslin of a parachute -- a few gossamer yards grasping onto air and suspending below them, with invisible threads, a human life, and man who by stitches, cloth, and cord, had made himself a god of the sky for those immortal moments.

Charles A. Lindbergh

I get up and a button falls off, I pick up my briefcase and the handle falls off I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.

Rodney Dangerfield

All politics is local.

Thomas P. O'Neill

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

Dan Fogelberg

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr